Philosophy Midterm

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Thales

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Water

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Anaximander

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Boundless

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Anaxemenis

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Air

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Parmenuoles

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Everything stays the same, Don't trust the senses

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Heraclitus

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Everything changes, Everything is in flux, Logos

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Empedocles

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Fire, Earth, Air, Water

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Socrates

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Ex. of him as gadfly and Athans as the sleepish horse, midwife and giving birth to insight.
The more you think you know the less you know.
Mans place in the world- justice, virtue, goodness= the good life.
Ugly on the outside but beautiful on the inside.
Soul is immortal.

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Philosophy

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love of wisdom

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Lego- most genious toy?

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Can be shaped into anything, durable, reusable, atom theory= legos

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Golden Age of Athens

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490-330 bc

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Charges against Socrates

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Corrupting the young.
Believing in God's other than those of Athens.

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Early Accusers

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Were set against Socrates before the trial even started.

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Late Accusers

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Meletus, Anytus, Lycon
Brought formal charges against him.

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Socrates Argues..

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Has done no teaching for he has accepted no money.
If he believes in spiritual things so he must believe in a spirit.
No one warned him he was doing anything wrong.

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Why Crito says he should leave Athens

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Kids will be orphaned otherwise.
Friends of Crito would help him out.
Could keep philosophizing elsewhere.
They would miss him.
He is taking the easy way out by dying

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Socrates argues back to Crito

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Cannot break the just laws.
It would make him look guilty if he left and he did nothing wrong.

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Wisdom

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being aware of ones ignorance

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Arguments of Socrates in the Phaedo

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We can recall knoledge dormat in our soul, so our soul pre-exists.
Opposites happen back and forth so there is life with death.
Because the soul brings life, the opposite of life (death) cannot overcome it.
The body is tangent so it will die, the sould in intangible so it will not.

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What does it mean to practice for philosophy?

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To practice for death and dying.
Seperation of the soul from the body.

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Socrates in the Phaedo

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Tells Everus to follow him as soon as possible if he is wise.
Meaning to live life for the soul not the body and practice for death and dying.

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What is the allegory of the cave?

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Dark cave, humans chained up against a wall, all they can see are shadows. One is set free or let free and goes up stairs to see figures in front of a fire casting the shadows. Go out of the cave and really sees the world for once. When comes back and explains to the others they think him crazy (not wanting to believe him) and want to be rid of him.

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Darkness

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ignorance

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Light

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knowledge

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Metaphysics

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Beyond nature

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Epistemology

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Study of knowledge

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Where does Plato say true knowledge comes from?

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reason

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The head is associated with..

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reason

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The chest/heart is associated with..

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will

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The abdomen is associated with..

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appetite

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Domocrates

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Atoms

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Sophists

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The ones paid to teach

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Plato's school

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The academy

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Rationalist

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One who claims reason is the source of knowledge

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Empiricist

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Thinks that experiences are the sources of knowledge

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Materialist

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Claims that reality is matter and nothing else